On Mon, Sep 01, 2014 at 14:03, Jonathan Gray wrote: > This adds support for using the SVR4/glibc word delimeters > in regcomp as an extension to what posix requires. > > We already have [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] as extensions, apparently > from 'Henry Spencer's Alpha 3.0 regex release' back in 1993. > > But now Solaris/Linux/FreeBSD all have the other syntax > and sadly lots of uses of grep and sed in what are supposed > to be portable projects use it. > > This diff is from Garrett D'Amore in Illumos via FreeBSD. > https://www.illumos.org/issues/516
I have a slight preference for my diff (I think it's clearer than deeper nested switches), but no matter. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=131094975127745&w=2
